U.K. variant of COVID-19 likely already in Windsor, Ont., hospital chief of staff says Mackie said people should not make trips out of their homes unless needed and to not have contact with people who aren’t in their immediate household.The person in the Middlesex-London region who had the COVID-19 variant is no longer infected with the virus and is in their 80s with no history of travel outside of Canada.At this time the Health Unit said it has not been advised of any other laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 U.K.
variant cases in the London or Middlesex County.The COVID-19 U.K. variant was first identified in Kent, United Kingdom on September 20, 2020; Ontario’s first case of the variant strain was identified in Durham Region on December 26,.